Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A remarkable person, object, or idea.
Wiktionary
- n. A remarkable person, object or idea; a doozie; a beauty; a humdinger.
- n. A very attractive or seductive person.
Etymologies
- Alteration (probably influenced by the nickname Lulu) of obsolete looly. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“January 27, 2008 petite gourmand said ... awe poor pumpkin pie. lulu is sick with that same cough - thankfully no ear infection yet.”
“J tried a juice made from a local fruit called lulu, which was incredibly refreshing and tart.”
“Ike aku la oia i keia hale nui e ku ana, ua po iho la, hele aku la oia ma ka lulu, aia no e ala mai ana o Moanalihaikawaokele, hoi mai la oia a ma kahi kaawale, e kali ana o ka moe iho, e like me ke kuhikuhi a”
“Closing this window without pressing "Report" will result in your words being lost. no longer will people called lulu/jerome paid £70k a year by the taxpayer be allowed to pinch ideas off youtube and pass them off as their own to someone called dame marjory who has”
“Shafran said the Republicans would "have the authority that any other chair will" including a "lulu" payment for their service.”
“Over at Labour Home a poster name of "lulu" is using the old broken record routine to make their point, that Gordon Brown must be replaced.”
“(East New York, Brownsville), Barron is the only Democratic member without a committee chairmanship or a lucrative annual "lulu" stipend.”
“Two of Casey's light-hitting teammates, one a "lulu" and one a "cake," shockingly get on base before the star.”
“· All of the millions of dollars of internal Senate resources (staff, district mailings, member "lulu" stipends … even paper clips) · All of the tens of millions of dollars of legislative grants and capital investment dollars”
“$25,000-a-year "lulu" as assistant majority leader for house operations.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lulu’.
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Sue's favorite words
panache, flair, pantaloons, periwinkle, pumpernickel, persnickety, cachet, coquette, élan, iris, ambrosia, keen and 99 more...
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songbirds
Names of girls in song titles. Not in the lyrics, just in the titles.
Just the name on the list, then the full title with any identifying notes in the comments, please.
Can be the same ...marianne, evie, lady d'arbanville, peggy sue, suzanne, dianne, boni maroni, miss molly, lola, mony, sadie, rita and 206 more...
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Scrabble Names
Given names that were acceptable for play the last time I checked the OWL.
kris, ray, barb, morris, kat, mark, maria, erica, marge, mason, hunter, hazel and 168 more...
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GRE
droll, dyspeptic, ebullient, ardor, edify, efficacy, malinger, mannered, martinet, maudlin, mendacious, mendicant and 102 more...
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Antique Names: Female
These names were once in common use - at least somewhat. Some are coming back. Some are almost forgotten. I think they would
make lovely names. Well... most of them.araminta, abigail, agnes, biddie, celestia, celestine, celia, ceola, chloe, claire, clementine, cordie and 179 more...
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mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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wickedwitch's list
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alit, plinth, eclat, diaphanous, portico, nival, daedal, apse, fossa, pellet, avail, midge and 143 more...
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The braggadocio recipe
A selection of English* words ending with a vowel (except "y", "ea", ie", "ee", "oo", "ea", "ou") that is REALLY pronounced.
My favorite English words, by the way.
The good twin of The ...braggadocio, recipe, encyclopedia, solo, gnu, flu, maybe, apocope, mini, arrhythmia, folio, stereo and 197 more...
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Femmesque
Curious words having to do with women: positive or negative; feminine, observational, technical, weird, stupid, crass, etc. I loathe some of these words but I'm using this list as a catch-all... ev...
mittelschmerz, gynotikolobomasso..., ingenue, uxorious, hogminny, quim, suffragette, damsel, madame, parturient, testatrix, mediatrix and 188 more...
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Isograms
Words with each letter repeated the same number of times. The pattern of repetition is tagged: 1212, 1221, 121122, 122121, 121233, 122133, 123123, 123132, 123213, 123231, 123312, 123321, 12123434, ...
deeded, sestettes, geggee, appeases, caucasus, isis, cancan, intestines, mesosome, palpal, valval, mama and 154 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1696 more...
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Déjà wordie?
pom-pom, mama, gaga, muumuu, cancan, dodo, aye-aye, kaka, dada, boo-boo, coco, lulu and 18 more...
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Toot Toot, Beep Beep!
chichi, tomtom, weewee, poohpooh, tutu, tsetse, ta-ta, peepee, woop woop, ack-ack, ding-ding, bon bon and 44 more...
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aptronyms of the anchoress
fussbudget, malapropos, addlepated, bedraggled, disheveled, dour, feckless, floozy, frowzy, frumpy, fustian, gruff and 19 more...
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Sluts, Bitches, and Goddesses
Words for women.
floozie, whore, cunt, tart, trull, ianfu, demimondaine, demimonde, ball-buster, ball-breaker, bar girl, b-girl and 84 more...
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The Sirens of Titan
Words gathered while reading The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut.
edwardian, rakehell, chrono-synclastic..., parvenu, chiton, dottle, ort, residua, narwhal, lulu, peyotl, peignoir and 49 more...
Tweets
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bilby Is this Clive James getting a lulu of a snake facial? Sep 15, 2008
frindley colloquial noun: a remarkable or excellent person or thing (19th-century origins?):
"The doomed beauty Grace Kelly was also in Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, which was a much lesser film, mainly because Hitch couldn't really open up its stage-play format beyond a certain point. But the score by Dimitri Tiomkin, a refugee from Russia, was a lulu."
Clive James in "Classics of the Cinema" Sep 11, 2008
chained_bear "Lulu's Back in Town," one of Fats Waller's best songs. Love it love it. Feb 9, 2008